Image from page 527 of "Bell telephone magazine" (1922)

Image from page 527 of "Bell telephone magazine" (1922)


Identifier: belltelephonevol3132mag00amerrich
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: [New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.]
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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people understand whatthey are talking about because, yousee, after all, they are human andthey dont like to be shut off fromcommunication with their fellow man, particularly since communication istheir business. By this time you must have sur-mised that the reason I can talk soauthoritatively about these peculiarpeople is that I am one of them.This article is just one more attemptof a long line of such attempts myfellow transmission engineers and Ihave been making to try to tell whattransmission is, where we have beenin this field, where we are now, andsome of our hopes and aspirationsfor the future. What Trans?nission Is All About There IS a general impression amongus In the telephone business that theprincipal reason for a persons mak-ing a telephone call Is that he wantsto talk to somebody else. If thisimpression is correct, then how wellpeople can talk on a telephone con-nection is a very important part ofthe telephone business. And the 228 Bell Telephone Magazine WINTER ;.j,«^

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. . . as a matter of course. . . you had to shout things that affect how well people cantalk over telephone connections arean important part of transmission—and transmission is what transmissionengineers work at. Now people in general have twopeculiarities which are very impor-tant in connection with this talkingbusiness. For one thing, they alwayswant something better than theyhave now. If it were not so, wewould all drive our automobiles tillthey were no longer serviceable; asa matter of fact, there probablywouldnt be any automobiles—per-haps not even a surrey with thefringe on top. In the second place, they want toget their moneys worth—and, ifpossible, a little to boot. And so it is with transmission.Thirty years ago, only in an emer-gency would you even have thoughtof trying to call your cousin who hasa chicken farm just outside of Peta-luma, California—unless you livedin or near Petaluma. And, if you did call, you would have taken as amatter of course the fact that youha


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